Monthly Archives: September 2015

Links for September 17th through September 26th

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Vinny

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• Metrics is a Java library which gives you unparalleled insight into what your code does in production. – Metrics provides a powerful toolkit of ways to measure the behavior of critical components in your production environment.
• Ratpack 1.0 Launches Aiming to make Asynchronous Programming Easier on the JVM – Ratpack 1.0 Launches Aiming to make Asynchronous Programming Easier on the JVM
• Ratpack: Simple, lean & powerful HTTP apps – Ratpack is a set of Java libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications.
• A Developer’s Journey into Linux Containers – In this article I am going to cover the concepts behind containerization. I am going to cover how a container differs from a virtual machine. I am going to go into the logic behind containers construction as well as how containers fit into application arch
• Hacking with Swift – learn to code iPhone and iPad apps with free Swift tutorials – Looking for Swift 2 and iOS 9 changes? All these projects are written for Swift 2, so you're good to go. I also wrote two articles that will interest you: What's New in Swift 2 and What's New in iOS 9. You can find all my free iOS 9 tutorials in one place
• Front-End Development Explained for Non-Developers – This plethora of technologies makes it challenging for developers and next to impossible for lay people to follow this field. This post will attempt to explain the landscape of front-end development technologies (as of mid-2015) for a non-developer audienc
• Lemur – Netflix open sources a x.509 certificate orchestration framework – Lemur is a certificate management framework that acts as a broker between certificate authorities and internal deployment and management tools. This allows us to build in defaults and templates for the most common use cases, reduce the need for a developer
• Swift 2 Apps in the App Store – Swift 2 is ready for the world. You can now submit your apps that take advantage of the latest features in Swift 2 that make code more readable and powerful, including guard, the new error handling model, and availability controls.
• Introducing Spring Cloud Data Flow – a cloud native programming model for microservices – Cloud Native composable microservices for ingesting, transforming, storing, and analyzing data. Spring Cloud Data Flow enables developers to build both real-time and batch processing applications using the same simple-yet-powerful model as their Spring Boo
• Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker by @marcoarment – Today, I’m launching my own iOS 9 content blocker, called Peace, to bring peace, quiet, privacy, and — as a nice side benefit — ludicrous speed to iOS web browsing.

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Links for September 11th through September 17th

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Vinny

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• Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners #machinelearning – Deep Learning is a very hot topic these days especially in computer vision applications and you probably see it in the news and get curious. Now the question is, how do you get started with it? Today's guest blogger, Toshi Takeuchi, gives us a quick tutori
• React Native Playground: Share and test your React Native code in the browser – The Playground is a place to easily test and share React Native applications. We host an in-browser code editor, an iOS simulator, and React Native packager instances to quickly test changes to your apps.
• Apache Mesos – Program against your datacenter like it’s a single pool of resources #mesos – Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.
• Understanding the functional revolution in front-end applications – With this article, I hope I will give you, if you need it, a better understanding of functional programming and how it influences front-end applications evolution.
• Lyft Goes Swift: How (And Why) It Rewrote Its App From Scratch In Apple’s New Language – Lyft's old code was fine. But its new version is tighter, easier to maintain—and ready for the future.
• How we ended up with microservices. – These engineering bits are what people are most interested in hearing about, but recently I realised I never explained to a wider audience how we ended up using microservices to begin with.

  I am sorry to disappoint my fellow techies, but the reason we mig

• Facebook open-sources React Native for Android to speed up mobile development – Facebook today announced the release of React Native for Android, a new open-source software project intended to speed up the process of making sophisticated native apps for Android using JavaScript. The release of the framework comes six months after Face
• Apple TV — A World Without Webviews @dgreller – The new Apple TV’s operating system — tvOS — has some differences from iOS 9, but one of the most startling ones is the removal of support for webviews. These are used throughout the industry for a wide range of purposes, the most obvious of which is to a display a website from within your app.
• Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise – Cardiovascular exercise was found to increase well-being and decrease psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Resistance training was noticeably effective in increasing well-being and personal accomplishment and to reduce perceived stress
• Amazon Web Services in Plain English #aws – Amazon Web Services in Plain English
• Salesforce launches App Cloud, puts developer resources under one roof – As part of the App Cloud launch, Salesforce also rolled out Heroku Enterprise, which will address key concerns for CIOs.

Links for September 2nd through September 10th

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Vinny

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• Introducing Heroku Private Spaces: Private PaaS, delivered as-a-Service – new Heroku runtime that delivers the best of both worlds; the simplicity and success of the cloud, combined with the network and trust controls historically only available with on premise, behind the firewall deployments. Available today in public beta, Private Spaces is powered by Heroku Dogwood — an all-new runtime architecture that augments the current Cedar runtime
• Lovefield – A relational database for web apps written in JavaScript – Lovefield is a relational database for web apps. It is written in JavaScript and works cross-browser. It provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use
• Chef Raises $40 Million in Funding Amidst Record Demand for DevOps – Chef is a pioneer in DevOps, the cultural and professional movement underpinning the digital transformation of every enterprise today. Chef is recognized as the standard automation platform for the DevOps workflow, with companies including Facebook, GE, Target, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, Gap, IBM, Yahoo, and Intuit, among more than 750 customers using Chef to accelerate software delivery and reduce operational risk. AWS, HP, and Microsoft, which today made Chef available on its Azure Marketplace (see separate release), have all joined Chef’s go-to-market efforts, solidifying Chef as the premier automation platform for DevOps.
• WS Cloud Design Patterns – collection of solutions and design ideas for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems – The AWS Cloud Design Patterns (CDP) are a collection of solutions and design ideas for using AWS cloud technology to solve common systems design problems
• sslip.io is a means for developers to test against valid SSL certificates without the bother of purchasing them. – sslip.io is a means for developers to test against valid SSL certificates without the bother of purchasing them.
• The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational – Some social psychologists believe our cognitive biases help us process information more efficiently, especially in dangerous situations. Still, they lead us to make grave mistakes. We may be prone to such errors in judgment, but at least we can be aware of them. Here are some important ones to keep in mind.
• Diffy: Testing services without writing tests – Diffy finds potential bugs in your service by running instances of your new and old code side by side. It behaves as a proxy and multicasts whatever requests it receives to each of the running instances. It then compares the responses, and reports any regressions that surface from these comparisons.
• Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build – Enterprise DevOps: Why You Should Run What You Build
• Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service – Today, I want to explore the Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) architecture and what this architecture enables. Below is a diagram of the basic components of Amazon ECS:
• The 12-Factor App: A Java Developer’s Perspective #cloudnative – The Twelve-Factor App is a recent methodology (and/or a manifesto) for writing web applications that, hopefully, is getting quite popular. Although I don’t agree 100% with the recommendations, I'll quickly go through all 12 factors and discuss them from th